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Chapter 7
ROAD TO REVOLUTION
Resistance
 Felt British did not care about their needs
 Britain in financial crisis
 Tighten laws against smuggling
 Writs of assistance --- search warrant
 Searching business --- homes
Mercantilism
 Justified control over
the colonies
 Favorable Balance of
Trade
 Export more than
 Benefit mother country
 Currency problems
 Royal Veto
Import
 Navigation Laws = 1650
 Transported only on British
ships
 Salutary Neglect
Sugar Act
 1764
 Increased the duty on foreign made molasses
 West Indies
 Taxed imports = not been taxed before
 Those accused of smuggling would be tried in vice-
admiralty court
 Had little impact on colonists
Quartering Act
 1765
 Provide food and shelter for redcoats
 Use Stamp Act to pay for new military force
Stamp Act
 1765
 Tax on documents and printed items
 Wills, Newspapers, Playing cards
 Stamp = prove that tax had been paid
 Boycott British goods until Stamp Act was
repealed
 March 1766 --- Parliament repealed law
Resistance
 Stamp Act Congress –
1765
 Sons of Liberty
 27 delegates / 9 states
 Daughters of Liberty
 Intercolonial unity
 Sam Adams
 Nonimportation
 Committees of Correspondence
Agreements
 Protests
 Spread resistance
Declaratory Act
 1766
 Passed the same day the Stamp Act was
repealed
 “Bind the colonies and people of America in
all cases whatsoever”
Townshend Acts
 1767
 Taxed goods that were
imported into the colony from
Britain
 Lead, glass, paint, and paper
 Tax on tea
 Pay salaries = Governors/Judges
 Boycotted British goods
 Sam Adams
Boston Massacre
 March 5, 1770
 Taunted British soldiers
 Shot accidentally fired
 11 killed / wounded
 Townsend Act costing
more to enforce
 Repealed Act
 Kept tax on tea
Tea Act
 1773
 British East India Company
 Going bankrupt
 Allowed to sell tea to the colonies free of taxes
 Cut colonial merchants out of tea trade
 Colonists did not want to buy cheaper tea
Boston Tea Party
 December 16, 1773
 Boston rebels board British ships
 Dressed as Native Americans
 Dumped 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston harbor
Intolerable Acts
 1774
 Shut down Boston Harbor
 Boston Port Act
 Quartering Act
 House soldiers in vacant
private homes and other
buildings
 Thomas Gage
 Appointed the new Governor
of Massachusetts
 Placed Boston under martial
law --- military force
Quebec Act
 French guaranteed their
Catholic Religion
 Retain old customs
 Boundaries extended
southward to Ohio River
First Continental Congress
 September 1774
 55 Delegates – Philadelphia
 12 / 13 Colonies represented
 7 weeks
 Drew up Declaration of Colonial Rights
 Right to run own affairs
 If British used force colonist would fight back
 Established militia
 Stockpiled firearms - gunpowder
Cont.
 Association
 Complete boycott of British goods
 Nonimportation
 Nonexportation
 Nonconsumption
Lexington and Concord
 April 18 1775
 Paul Revere


Sent warning out
700 British troops = Redcoats
 Headed to Concord
 70 minutemen - Lexington


8 minutemen killed --- 10 wounded
1 British soldier injured
 First Battle of the Revolutionary
War
Concord
 Redcoats marched on to
Concord
 Arsenal was empty
 Headed back
 3,000 – 4,000
minutemen assemble
now
 Fired on the troops as
they marched home
Imperial Strength/Weakness
Strengths
 7.5 million Brits to 2.5
colonists
 Naval power
 Professional army v.
militia
 Hessians
 Loyalists / Native
Americans
Weaknesses
 Sympathy
 Distance
 Geography
American Strength/Weakness
Strengths
 Leadership
 European officers
 Fighting Defensively
 Self sustaining
 Moral Cause
Weaknesses
 Disorganized
 Jealousy / States /Sectional
 Continental / Inflation /
Currency
 Deserters
 Supplies